RE: [asa] Slug

-----Original Message-----
From: Iain Strachan [mailto:igd.strachan@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:46 PM
[Glenn Morton]
 Glenn,

If you'd stop shouting in captial letters like you do and actually read what
I said, you will see that I said:

unless you have a Bible that provides a complete scientific revelation, and
I think we're all agreed that the Bible isn't supposed to be that.
[Glenn Morton]
Sorry, to be shouting, but you didn't say exactly "I think we're all agreed
that the Bible isnt' supposed to be that"
 
You wrote:
 
"If any sacred writing gives any account of creation, unless it either says
"God made all this", or it gives a perfect revelation of the science that
actually happened, it will be vulnerable to inferences being made ( e.g.
about the age of the earth), which might later turn out to be factually
wrong."
 
Frankly, I don' t quite know how to take it other than the all or nothing
fallacy even after I re-read it. If the only way to avoid the problem is to
give a complete science book, as you say, then why on earth is this not the
all or nothing fallacy?

I was agreeing with you and everyone else that the bible isn't supposed to
be a modern science book! So you really don't need to remind me in capital
letters that you've said it 10,000 times on this list. I know. I was
acknowledging that. (Though a simple, true statement like "many times"
might be more appropriate than over-exaggeration - you'll get the reputation
of being an even poorer communicator than God!).
[Glenn Morton]
Well, I think obviously, I am a much poorer communicator than God.

"out of slime came life" a statement that is accomodated to 21st century
science that is a falsifiable scientific statement.
[Glenn Morton]
No it is not. It is merely another version of spontaneous generation, which
was widely believed in ancient times. I think I said that in my last post.
 
 What if life came out of a meteor that fell on the earth, or something else
that wasn't slime? I think you might argue that by the time you got to the
slime stage, there was already life. You're just replacing one scientific
statement with another.
[Glenn Morton]
I would buy that--life came to earth on a rock from above. The point is,
God is supposed to know something about what happened, and this God can't
seem to communicate a small piece of the truth to mankind,and then the
accommodationalists tell us that we are supposed to believe the theology is
true--yet they can't even agree on the verses that are accommodated and they
can't agree what the theology is.

Glenn, I am doing my best to try and grapple with your question. But if you
treat me like I'm an idiot I'll not bother any more.
[Glenn Morton] As I said, I am sorry. Your last note sounded to me like you
were doing the all or nothing thing. Still does to me, but I will accept
that you didn't mean it that way.

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Received on Thu Jun 15 18:59:12 2006